ANTH 200 Cultural Anthropology

Class # Meeting time Room
Syllabus
1st Half Study Guide
2nd Half Study Guide
Final Exam Times
62328 MW 8:05-9:20 Palana 227
pdf
Knowledge Survey
pdf, doc
Knowledge Survey
pdf, doc
Wed, 12/16, 8:30-10:20am
62095 TR 8:15-9:30 Imiloa 133
pdf
Tue, 12/15 8:30-10:20am

*PDF files can be read with Adobe Acrobat Reader

Books & Readings

Required Books

  • Kottak's Mirror for Humanity (6th ed -- 4th or 5th are ok, but the chapters are ordered differently -- see table at right)
    An e-book version of this text is available for $33.75 at CourseSmart.com (180 day subscription)
  • Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (any edition) -- for the 1st half of the course [2 copies are on reserve in the library]
  • Shostak's Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (any edition) -- for the 2nd half of the course [2 copies are on reserve in the library]
dog with listening ears
Public Radio interviews with Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and Boua Tong Xiong, Hmong advisor and spiritual leader in Connecticut.

Reading Prep Forms - There are no specific written tasks associated with Nisa or Spirit. If an "assignment" (ungraded, no points) would help you to remember the information and provide you some structure, these reading prep forms may be of use.

Nisa Reading Prep Form (doc, pdf)
Spirit Catches You Reading Prep Form (doc, pdf)
Reading Prep Form for Articles (doc, pdf)

 

Mirror for Humanity Chapter Comparison for Different Editions

6th ed 5th ed 4th ed
1 What is Anthropology? 1 1
2 Ethics and Methods 2 2
3 Culture 3 3
4 Language and Communication 5 5
5 Making a Living (Economy) 6 6
6 Political Systems 7 7
7 Families, Kinship and Marriage 8 8
8 Gender 9 9
9 Religion 10 10
10 World System & Colonialism 11, 12 11, 12
11 Ethnicity and Race 4 4
12 Applying Anthropology 1 (some) 1 (some)
13 Cultural Exchange and Survival 13 13

Download this table (pdf).

Required Articles

Day 1 to Midterm Post-Midterm to Final
Week 1: Using Anthropology (McCurdy) Week 8: The Baseball Bat War (Stanfel)
Information on Palau
Handout (back of Subsistence Strategies Chart)
Handout for Taboo: Justice (Season 2 - available in the WCC library))
Week 2: Slides on Ethnography
Tricking & Tripping (Sterk)
Week 9: The Visit (Geertz)
Slides on Kinship: Descent and Marriage
Handout on kinship symbols
Handout on US/European Kinship System
Handout on Taboo: Marriage (Season 1) - viewed 10/26-27
DVD: A World Without Husbands or Fathers (in the WCC library - DVD shelf)
Week 3: Eating Christmas in the Kalahari (Lee)
Slides on Culture
Week 10:

Required Articles on Gender
Slides (3 per page, 6 per page) on Gender and Sexuality
Articles to read/write response for extra credit: Manhood on the Mat (Katz & Jhally), Symbolizing Roles: Behind the Veil (Fernea & Fernea), Women Choose Spouses on African Island (Callimachi)
Handout on Thai Sex & Gender
Recommended Video: Beautiful Boxer

Week 4: Mixed Blood (Fish)
Slides on Ethnicity and Race
Handout to accompany "Race: The Power of an Illusion (available on reserve at the library - watch the condensed version of Part 1)
Week 11: Baseball Magic (Gmelch)
Slides on Religion (3 per page, 6 per page)
Week 5: Speech Patterns Trigger Housing Discrimination (article from class)
Last Words (Sampat)
Week 12: Why Can't People Feed Themselves (Lappe & Collilns)
Slides on the Modern World System
Week 6: The Hunters (Lee)
Handout - Subsistence Strategies Chart
optional article: Where are they now? The !Kung (Lee p. 1, 3-5)
Week 13:

Slides on Applying Anthropology: Development
Handout for the film "Life and Debt" (on Jamaica)
Handout for the film "Wal*Mart: The High Cost of Low Price"

    Week 14: Slides on Cultural Survival

Synthesis Essays

Essay questions are listed on page 5 of the syllabus.
Rubric used to mark the essays
Handout with suggestions for responding to essay questions.


Extra Credit Activities


Fieldwork Projects: Mini-Ethnography or Service Learning Option
Project Descriptions are provided in the syllabus (available above).

Mini-Ethnography Information
Check list for the paper

Some ETHNOGRAPHIES from previous semesters

read what students learned about various Oahu subcultures in these papers reporting on their ethnographic research

Autism
Ballroom Dancing
Bounty Hunters
Cockfighting
Coffee Shops
Death and Dying
Job Corps
Local-Military Relationships
Longs Clerks
Married Students w/ Kids
Massage Therapists
Mormon Missionaries
NDI Airframes at KMCB
Night Nurses
Perspectives on Homelessness
Safe Haven
Single Mormons
Starbucks Pearlridge
Strip Club
Tattoo Artists
Wicca
Women Who Have Had Abortions
Worship Leaders
Zen and Karate

Service-Learning Information

Required items:
1. Site Proposal form
2. Risk, Release, and Waiver of Liability form
3. Reflective Journal (Sample journal form; Rubric for S-L journal)
4. Time Log (include days, times, and grand total number of hours)
5. Site supervisor's Evaluation form

Possible SERVICE LEARNING SITES include...

Boys and Girls Club (Windward Clubhouse)
Haunama Bay Education Program
Hawaiian Island Humpback Whale Sanctuary
Castle Medical Center
Ho‘omaluhia Botanical Garden

Hawaiian Humane Society
Hawaii State Hospital
Ko‘olau Clubhouse
Project Visitation
Pohai Nani (retirement community & care center)

any school (Windward schools map)
Shriners Hospital for Children
Sierra Club
Surfrider Foundation O‘ahu Chapter